Keane, Henry

If you haven't seen the outburst from Roy Keane's press conference yesterday, get yourself over to YouTube or SSNews or somewhere else I can't be bothered to link to. It really is a fascinating watch, Keane basically lays into the Irish players and particularly the FAI for all their protestations and calls for a replayed game vs France. He does make a few valid points - they should have done better to clear the ball, they should have probably been out of sight by that point anyway - but in typical Keane style he launches some outstanding verbal missiles at the FAI. One man who gets attacked in particular is FAI chief executive John Delaney, who Keane simply said 'John Delaney? I wouldn't take any notice of that man.' Haha that even made me laugh writing it, classic steaming Keane. Roy does of course have plenty of previous with the FAI and as he revealed yesterday plenty with Delaney himself, with some kind of issue they had over the 2002 World Cup in which Keane was a player. As I said I do agree with some of what Keane said, including most strongly with a point he made about Ireland v Georgia in the qualifying campaign in which Ireland won 2-1 thanks to a ridiculous decision to give Ireland a penalty - there was a tackle outside the box and the ball squirted out into the box into the keepers arms and all of sudden, pen. However Keane seems to ignore the fact that, yes the SHOULD have stopped the free kick coming in, and they SHOULD have perhaps scored a crucial second earlier, but they didn't. The handball DID happen so there is no should or could about it, that actually happened so there's no use in going on about what didn't happen.

Following the continued rows and appeals and complaints blah blah blah, Theirry released his own statement yesterday apologising and saying he wants the game to be replayed. While this gesture should be appreciated (which it was in a statement from Robbie Keane) it can't really be seen as anything other than an empty gesture for me. Henry is smart enough to know that the game won't be replayed so he's happy to make that appeal to get a few PR points back. Looking back at the incident again, Arsene is spot on with his press conference comments yesterday, saying something like 'what is the most frustrating thing is that the ref has given the goal, knowing that something is wrong. He walks back from the goal mouth knowing that the goal he has to give, should be disallowed but hasn't got any reason not to give it.' And there's more on the fact that video evidence should come in which I suppose following Wednesday night is now inevitable.

That's that for today as I know tomorrow will probably be a big'un and my fingers are gonna burrrrn. Take her easy.